Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, no. 01

Follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to follow him in his footsteps; he initially rejects his daughter's love before eventually becoming reconciled with her before his death. The original parts issued from October 1846 to April 1848. Chapters 1-4: Chapter 1. Dombey and Son -- Chapter 2. In which timely provision is made for an emergency that will sometimes arise in the best regulated families -- Chapter 3. In which Mr. Dombey, as a man and a father, is seen at the head of the Home-Department -- Chapter 4. In which some more first appearances are made on the stage of these adventures

In Collection:

• Victorian Serial Novels Collection

Creator

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Contributor

• Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882

Subject

• Social classes
• Social conflict
• Child abuse
• Fathers and daughters
• Dysfunctional families
• Families

Publisher

• London : Bradbury & Evans

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Call Number: PR4559 A1 1846

Date created

• 1846 to 1848

Relation

•  https://search.library.uvic.ca/permalink/01VIC_INST/71bv5b/alma993942433807291

Resource type

• Text

Source

• University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections, PR4559 A1 1846

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 20 numbers in 19 volumes

Alternative title

• Dombey and Son

Geographic coverage

• England

Coordinates

• 52.16045, -0.70312

Additional physical characteristics

• Illustrations.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Victorian Serial Novels Collection

Provenance

• Donor: Dr. Claude E. Emery

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• fiction (general genre)
• books
• serials (publications)
• publications (documents)
• novels

Date digitized

• August 23, 2010

Technical note

• 24 bit color 150 dpi med quality (5) JPG; 24 bit color 400 dpi BMP; scanned and compressed by CDW/SR/MM; metadata by GF and KD.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/g6pn-kq53

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

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